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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-01-28

Weighing cows milk will not cause
her to give any more, but may cause her
owner to substitute better one.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-01-28

Manure from the hen-house is the best
fertilizer usually produced on the farm,
equal to much Of the commercial guano.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-01-28

Turkeys are profitable birds TO raise.
for they are marketable. to some extent,
at fair prices throughout the year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-01-28

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CLIPPER MOWERS.
HORSE RAKES,
WOOD PUMPS,
DOUGLAS FORCE PUMPS,
FENCE WIRE,
FIELD ROLLERS,
MANURE SPREADERS,
IRON AGE CULTIVATORS,
CORN SHELTERS,
Silver & Deering Feed Cutters,
Sinclair Feed Cutters, Rites Patent
Griudstone, for grinding Reaper Knives,
Young America Corn and Cob Mill.
Harrows of all kinds and sizes, Farm
Bells, Wheelbarrows, Lightning Hay
Knife, Monumental Churns, Cylinder
Cturns, Staff Churns. Well Buckets,
Measures, Horse Buckets, Trace Chains,
Curry Combs, Horse Brushes. Hamcs,
Whitewasb Brushes, Forks, Picks, Sho-
wells, Spades, Hoes and Mattocks -
Grindstones and Fixtures. Hay Rakos,
Plow Handles, Back Bands. Hatchets,
Axes. dc.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05

Two girls sat in the front of the car.
The only remaining occupant was re-
porter, who sat in the rear in the shade.
The girls were unaware or, at any rate,
oblivious of his presence, for they were
mutually confidential.
ooh, Clara!' exclaimed the one in
the corner. do you know Gus pro-
posed to me last night?'
Did he? How nice?'
'Yes, he did. And he brought me a
box of the sweetest caramels you ever
saw
'Does he bring you a box of candy
every time he calls?'
'Why, of course he does. He's just
as nice as he can be-
Charley never brings me any. But
then he takes me to theatres real often.
'Humph! Gus takes me, too
'He must be too sweet for anything.
ooh, l tell you he is; he's clerk in
a dry goods store, and he gets 81 a
week; just think of it Why, we can
get married, and that money will buy
ever so much candy
'But don't you know you will have
grocery bills and lots of other things to
buy
'How funny l never thought of that.
Pail have to buy them, suppose
'Will hep
sOf course he will
'How do you knowP'
Because
But the reporter resolved to walk the
remainder of the journey, which resolu-
ton he Immediately carried into effect.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05
The Farmers Wife.

A farmers wife writes as follows to
the New York Witness: I was reading
some time ago that a large portion of
the women that go insane are farmers
wives; and when I look her life over 1
almost wonder that they do not all go
insane. She rises in the morning and
cooks breakfast for the family q am
writing of the average farmers wife)
then the work is to be done up, milk to
skim, butter to work, two or three little
ones to get ready for school, nice
lunch to put up for their midday meal,
while baby is all the time protesting it
is time to be dressed for his breakfast.
She must wash and dress him, and put
him to sleep for his morning nap, all
the time watching the clock to see how
fast the hands travel toward twelve.
Now, while he sleeps, the beds are to
make, bedrooms to sweep, and thous-
and other things to do too numerous to
mention. Before this is done it is time
to start dinner, for she knows the clock
hands are no more sure to point to
twelve than the men are to be there for
dinner, and she knows too we'll how
many glances of dissatisfaction will be
cast at the upset table, even if the tongue
is silent. She catches the now wide
awake baby in her arms, and carries him
around for while, then sets him upon
the floor, hunts some playthings, and
every time she passes speaks to him to
keep him quiet. Dinner over, here are
dishes to wash again, baking to do, per-
haps the kitchen to scrub q am only
glancing at the common everyday work,
such as washing, ironing, house.clean-
ing, sewing, etc., then supper to get
and the dishes to wash by lamp-light,
while the men are resting and reading
the papers; then sit down to knit or to
patch (after baby is disposed off,; then
when she is tired and feeling blue, by
way of amusement she can hear the men
talk of how much easier times women
have than they do. In the summer she
is in the shade (of course the hot stove
don't count, then in the winter she can
sit by the fire, while they are out in the
cold. They forget the cold dishes she
must handle bare handed, and the cold
rooms she must attend to. But think
that the part that really drives them in
sane is yet to come. They spend day
after day, even into the weeks often,
without seeing one of their own sex.
How many days do men pass without
meeting other men, if only for few
moments, and comparing views? Do
you ever stop to think of how much
better you feel after that little chat while
the team is resting2 Then, do you ever
think of your wife all alone, day after
day, longing for few moments talk
with some woman? Is it any wonder
that as time passes she gets tired home,
sick of the sight of everything around
it; and to this is added eart-hunger,
what wonder that she longs to lay the
burden down and take eternal rest?
How many times when you have the
team hitched up, and have an errand to
neighbor AS you might ask her to go
along! Even if for only five or ten
minutes, it would, at least, show her
that you are thoughtful for her comfort
(Which she is sometimes led to doubt
1, for one, think it no wonder so many
become insane.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05

ba~What we must do is to make the
actual possibilities of life our ideal. 1t
lies in human life not to construct the
godlike, but to recognize it, and thus
gain it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05
ToWsoNTov7N, Md, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1857
'He'd better keep still tew-nite, fer I
shell sleep with one eve open.'

'He'd better keep still tew-nite, fer I
shell sleep with one eye open.'
HE amt much like the minister,
observed 'Meeriah,' who was not lit
tie Struck by Elder Goodman's appear
ance.
Despite Farmer Green's assertions
that he should sleep with one eye open,
he was snoring soundly in less than an
hour after he went to bed.
Some time in the night he awoke and
sat bolt upright in bed, listening in
tently.
The bedroom door that opened into
the kitchen was partially ajar. The
farmer thought he heard soft, cat-like
step upon the floor. He arose, stole to
the door and peered into the dark room.
A shadow was cautiously stealing
across the floor toward the back door.
The farmer was a stout man, and he
did not hesitate moment, but rushed
upon the dark form and hurled it to the
floor.
Bring light, marm!' he roared, as
he held down thestruggling man. Bring
light! quick!'
AS soon as the frightened and excited
Mrs. Green could strike match she
obeyed. The light flashed full in the
face of the man whom the farmer was
holding down.
Land sakes alive!' exclaimed the
woman. It's the minister!
$50 it isl gasped the astonished
farmer.
'The minister!' cried the farmers
other lodger, who had been aroused by
the racket, and now caught glimpse
of the face of the man on the floor
why that's John Rogers, the worst
horse. thief in the State of Maine. He's
just the man I'm after.
The next minute he snapped a pair
of handouts upon the bogus minister's
wrists.
'Why, Land ov Goshen, who are your
cried Farmer Green.
4 am the sheriff of Somerset County,
was the reply.
Upon investigation, it was found that
the horse and buggy with which the
bogus minister had driven up to Farmer
Green's door were stolen property.
Through the open window the horse
thief had heard the sheriff's voice, as he
conversed with the farmer at the door.
His attempt to escape would have been
successful, had he not awakened Farmer
Green by making an unintentional noise.
The next morning the sheriff, who,
the night before, had entered Farmer
Green's house in sullen state of dis
appointment, caused by being eluded
and baf1ed by the slippery horse-thief,
departed in triumph with his prisoner.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05
The Temperature of tine BumbIe.
Bee.

Bill Nye, an the Laramie Boomerang.
A recent article on bees says: IF
you have noticed bees very closely, you
may have seen that they are not all alike
in size
have noticed bees very closely in
deed during my life. In fact have
several times been thrown into immedi-
ate juxtaposition with them, and have
had great many opportunities to OBJ
serve their ways, and l am free to say
that | have not been so forcibly struck
with the difference in their size as the
noticeable difference in their tempera-
ture.
| remember at one time of sitting by
hive watching the habits of the bees,
and thinking how industriously they
were, and what wide difference there
is between the toilsome life of the little
insect and the enervating, aimless, idle,
and luxurious life of the newspaper man,
when an impulsive little bee lit in my
hair. He seemed to be feverished.
Wherever he settled down he seemed to
leave hot place. l learned afterward
that it was a new kind of bee called the
-clinker base burner bee.
Oh, yes, l have studied the ways of
the bee very closely. He is supposed
to improve each shining hour. That's
the great objection have to him. The
bee has been thrown to me great deal
during my life, and the comparison was
not fattering. 1t has been intimated
that I resembled the bee that sits on the
piazza of the hive all summer and picks
his teeth, while the rest are getting in
honey and beeswax for the winter cam
paign.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05
A FavOrite Name with Her.

A countryman in search of tomb
stone to place over the grave of his de-
ceased mother, walked into stone-cut-
ting establishment where such things are
manufactured, and looked around at his
leisure. He told the stone cutter about
his mother and what he thought her
taste would be in such matters, and fl
nally pitched upon stone he thought
would do.
I'll take this one, said he.
sThat belongs to another person.
Don't you see it has the name of Berry
cut on it..
THAT makes no difference was the
reply, my mother couldn't read, and
besides Berry was always favorite name
with her anyhow
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05
The Young Widow.

Sheis modest, but not bashful,
Flee and easy, but not bold;
Like m apple ripe and mellow,
Nottoo young and not too old.
Half inviting, half repulsive,
Now advancing, and now shy
There ismischief in her dimple,
There s danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature,
She is schooled in all the arts;
She has taken her diploma
AS the mi,tress of all hearts;
She can tell the very moment
When to sig gh and when to smile;
o, maid is sometimes charming,
But widow all the while!
Are you sad how very serious
Will her handsome face become!
Are you angry? she is wretched,
Lonely, friendless, fearful, dumb
Are you mirthful? now her laughter,
Silver sounding, will ring out /!
She can lure, and catch and play you,
AS the angler does the trout.
Ye old bachelors of forty,
Who have grown so bald and wise,
Young America of twenty
With love-looks in your eyes,
You may practice all the lessons
Taught by Cupid since the fall;
But know little widow
Who could win and fool you all.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05

B9>A Pittsburgh girl, who had re-
fused good-looking telegraph repair
man three times within six months, gave
as reason that he was too much of a
wanderer, that he roamed from pole to
pole, from one climb to another, and
that if he did come home, he'd be insu-
late that the neighbors would be sure to
talk,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05
The Boss Liar.

The train had started off. A young
man rushed breathlessly into the depot.
'Got left, did you?' said the ticket
seller.
'Of course 1 got left,' he responded.
Then some one said he could 60 across
the bridge and catch the troin, and ana
other told him when the next train
would go, and various suggestions were
made. The chap looked at the disap
pearing train few seconds, when some
one asked:
where were you going2'
Then the wicked fellow said, ooh,
wasn't going in the train. My wife:
mother is on the train and / wanted tc
kiss her before she left
'Liar' roared twenty-four married
men in chorus.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05
JOHN 8. CUTTINGS.
JOHN S. CUTTINGS & CO.,
BANKERS.
North and Fayette Sts., Baltimore.

Having purchased the Chesapeake Bank Build
ing with view to enlarging our business, we are
prepared to offer most liberal terms to the public.
Our facilities enable us to make for our customers
collections on all points, free of charge.
Attachedto our Bank is large and well-arrauged
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, with all modern i'm
provements tending to make it absolutely safe, in
which boxes are rented at SIS and $40 per annunl,
according to size. Orders for the purchase sale
of Securities receive prompt attention.
Apl.1O,S6y
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-05
n@Huckster-sWhat are YOU smell

p9r Huckster-'What are you SMELL
ing those fish for2'
Critic-T amt smelling de fish, boss;
Use only talking to dem.
Huckster-sTalkingto to tire fsha A1Ehy==
what did you say1'
Critic-'Why, dey looks like fish come
from whar l did, way down de bay;
and was askin' dem how de ole place
looks since l left. But dey say, Laws,
hunny, Use been way from der SO long
l don know how it looks. FRANK Les
he's WeekN.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-15
What Stanley Has Done.

The Staney, however, who has executed
the feat of putting Africa together like a
puzzle as it never was put together before
has become man something like 4S or 30
years old, l should think. 1t is said here
that when he first went out he expected
to marry rich, young and stylish woman
in New York. Before he returned, how
ever, she had taken husband. and | see
her every now and then at the seaside
places with her husband. who is an atten-
tive man, while her children have grown
up to be big and hearty and some of them
are perhaps now marriageable. If Stan
ley had remained around the newspaper
offices OF New York getting silly orders to
60 here and there. these very orders in
tended perhaps to break him up and de-
stroy his self respect and continuity, we
should now be looking at very ordinary
fragment or has been.
His feat of descending the Congo from
the sources Of the Nile or thereabouts to
the Atlantic ocean marked his recognition
by a higher range of people. He told us
at the Lotos club that it was Edwin
Arnold, the poet, author of 1.-The Light Of
Asia" who prevailed on Mr. Levy, the
Hebrew who owns The London Telegraph,
to offer Stanley the task and the money
Levy concluded he would undertake it If
Bennett would come in. He telegraphed
Bennett who replied after hesitation that
he would help. So these two newspapers,
one in New York and one in London, sent
Stanley to do that work which was better
done than any work has ever been done
in Africa by any other traveller. Man
kind owes to the newspaper organization
its knowledge to-day Of the route of
the river Congo and the consequent at
tempts TO make trade and to galvanize and
civilize Africa. But after that feat Mr.
Stanley was probably done for as a news
paper correspondent The two news
papers naturally did not much agree
The paper which had first sent Stanley
out probably had kind Of grudge that
somebody else had appreciated him
There are some newspapers in this world
where you are just as unsafe by being
magnificent as by being a failure
sc ath" in Boston Globe.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-15
One Kind OF Reading.

And how few persons who can devote
but an hour or half an hour day to read
ing and study take due thought as TO how
they can make the most of their little leis-
ure. They read in desultory way what
ever comes to hand, and think that if they
had more time for books they would soon
become much better informed. But the
half hour day, if used in the wisest man
ner, would make a vast difference in ones
mental growth as the months and years
glide by.
An incident occurs to me that well il
lutrates this. A pretty maiden hair fern
growing in a flower pot was given to
young girl hopelessly i'll with spinal dis
ease 1t proved a thing of beauty and of
inexhaustible interest, as the delicate,
graceful fronds came up one by one and
slowly uncurled. There was little pot
beside the fern and under its spreading
fronds in which grew an aloe. By and by
the sick girl noticed in the little pot some
tiny ferns scarce an inch high quite I'M
like the maiden hair. Whence came theys
Her interest was aroused. She was no
botanist. but she wanted to learn some
thing about ferns. She could use her eyes
for reading but five minutes at
eAAhC ohN hOh AWAY tAhA S"ASS a "A
book on ferns came to her, and another
and another Friends, knowing her in
terest in ferns, brought them TO her fresh
and green from the woods or sent her
pressed specimens of rare varieties gath
cred in distant lands. Sometimes visitor
would read TO her from one of her precious
books, but only for four or five minutes.
81 cannot remember more at tine, y she
would say, and you haveread enough
for me 10 think about for long time
1t is now some years since the maiden
hair fern was given 10 her, and she has be-
come an authority as TO the species and
culture of ferns and is an enthusiast in
regard to them. 1t is true that She has
become edcuated in one direction only,
and is not particularly well informed in
other respects. But is it not a great gain
that she should talk about her ferns and
their wonderful method of reproduction.
awakening her listeners interest and
teaching them many things worth remem-
boring rather than TO dwell chiefly on her
pains and privaions; II is many years
since she was able TO step out of doors.
but when YOU are with her you do not
think of her as I'D invalid 50 interested
and interesting is she.-Boston Tran
script.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-15
.ails eagle
THE REASON.

Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor Tor any outward part;
No. nor for q constant heart!
For these may fail or turn to Ill;
So thou and shall sever.
Keep, therefore, q true woman's Eye.
And love me still, but know not whyi
30 Lest thou the same reason still
TO dote upon me ever.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-15

According to the report Of the New
York bureau of labor statistics there were
more than l,500 strikes in that state last
year, as against 500 in 1885
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-15

Great difficulty is experienced in getting
Indian children at the Uintah, Colo,
agency to attend the school at Grand
junction, because their parents fear that
they are 10 be taken east and sold into
slavery Herald.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-15

According TO Holmes it was at Prince
ton where mighty Edwards stamped his
iron heel" College football il those days
meant business
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-15

On inc LIST or December the United
States treasury contained s439, 023, 740.50
Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-28
Rancbine in soutb America.

Harper's Magazine:. In 1885 there
were Al l,0O0,0OO sheep in the United
States, 72,0O0,OOO in Australia, and
100, ,OO0, 900 in the Argentine Republic.
We have two-thirds os "a sheep to every
inhabitant; in the Argentine Republic
there are twenty-five sheep, and in
Uruguay forty sheep, to every man,
woman and child. We have 4O,0OO.0O
of horned cattle to population of co.
OOO, 900; the Argentine Republic and
Uruguay have $4,000, 600 of cattle to
population of 4,50O,OW. In Uruguay,
with a population Of 100000 souls, there
are 8,0OO,OOO of cattle, 20,OO0,000 Of
sheep, 1000, 600 horses, or sixty head OF
stock for each man, woman, and
child. Fifteen million dol
lars has been invested in wire
fences in Uruguay alone, and moro
than twice as much in the Argentine
Republic. In either of the countries
COW can be bought for$ Ia steer fattened
for the market for $40 or $12, sheep
for 80 or go cents, an ordinary work.
ing horse for $S or $40 and roadster
for $25, mule for Sl5 and mare for
whatever her hide will bring. Mares
are never broken TO saddle or harness,
but are allowed to run wild in the pas
lures from the time they are foaled till
they cease to be of value for breeding,
when they are driven to the salederos,
or slaughter houses, and killed for their
hides. A man who would use marc
under the saddle or before wagon
would be considered of unsound mind.
There is superstition against il.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-28
A Man OF Many Stripes.

New York correspondence: A man
Of venerable aspect walked past John
l.. sullivan in Broadway. The con-
trast in physique and apparent men-
tality was vast.
~ say, John" remarked companion
Of the prize fighter, "there goes the
most whipped man on earth"
HAS that old fellow been profess
sionalp" Sullivan asked, q little disdain-
fully. :.
"Yes; n professional Clergyman"
was the reply. "He is Calvin Fair
banks, and he has received over
thirty thousand lashes on his bare
back"
There was no exaggcration In that
statement. Fairbanks was involved in
the escape of nearly half hundred
negro slaves from kentucky. He was
convicted of forty OF these acts
or crimes, the law said-and sentenced
to Imprisonment and whipping sep
arately for each. Between 1874 and
1862, when Lincoln released him, he
was regularly whipped every month.
He now lives at Friendship, N. Y, but
sometimes comes to town to visit his fol-
low ministers who congregate at tho
Methodist Book concern. His official
whippings were only severe at the out
set, and during the last ten years of his
imprisonment amounted TO hardly any
thing in physical torture, although de-
grading to his pride.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-28
SPECIAL NOTICES.
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All advertisements in these columns are pub.
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more than 1900 papers daily, and gives the ad-
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1ation of the Bee, but also OF Council Bluffs.
Lincoln and other cities and towns throughout
this part of the west
Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-28

SEALED Proposals will be received at the
- Office of the county clerk up to noon of Sat
urday. October 29th, 1887. for grading 1900
yards Df earth, more or less, Mt Intersection Of
18th and Missouri avenue, and south on 10th
TO reject any and all bids. deposit Of $500
will be required with each bid. Specifications
of above work can be seen at county clerk 3
Office. by order of the Board.
oz4d5t c. z. NEEpHAM, County Clerk
Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-28
Dissolution. Notice.

FINHE firm heretofore doing business under the
l. name of Metcalf x, Perfect IS dissolved by
mutual consent. All assets are assigned TO II
9. Metcaltr who will settle all accounts at the
Bank of Commerce.
Octoberf... 1851. MErcALF PERFECT.
os1d3ts
Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-28

TWO houses in Hanscom place renting for
l. SO per month to exchange for good inside
vacantproperty. s. s. Campbell and CIV. Her
vey,3lOS. 10Th ST., Chamber OF Commerce. l5s
Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-28
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.


MIDLAND Guarantee and Trust Co., 1905
lI Farnam street-Complete abstracts fur
nished. and titles to real estate examined, per-
fected and guaranteed. 210